AP photoFrank Lostaunau, 67, a retired psychotherapist and a member of SNAP (the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests) holds up a sign during a demonstration in front of the Archdiocese headquarters in San Francisco last week. The demonstration was held against the Catholic church about sexual abuse remarks made by Pope Benedict XVI.Connie SchultzI found it interesting that Cleveland Plain Dealer columnist Connie Schultz admits she is a Protestant and has decided to write about how the Catholic Church is its own worst enemy. This is electrifying stuff.

She said the Church became fair game because U.S. bishops publicly said ("brayed") they nearly derailed health care reform and took a hardline position about women in the debate.

Schultz writes for a sister publication of The Jersey Journal and I can sense she her efforts are from the heart. It is why she won a Pulitzer Prize.

As for not being afraid to be called an anti-Catholic, Schultz put it this way:

"As Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy
Noonan so aptly put it last week, non-Catholic journalists like me
have tended to avoid covering the church because we don't want to appear
to be anti-Catholic.

"My reticence evaporated during the debate over health care reform,
when the all-male U.S. Conference of
Catholic Bishops felt free to impose its beliefs, and its
restrictions, on all the women of America. The bishops lobbied to ban
abortion funding from the bill, even though no such provision ever
existed. Then the bishops brayed over how successful they were at nearly
derailing health care reform."